Heat or one of the best modern crime dramas ever

This movie is an older movie that came out in 1995. It features some of the finest actors of any day. A few of these being little names like Robert DeNiro, Al Pacino, and Val Kilmer. Ya know, no one that well known. In case the internet has failed me and it didn't come through, that was sarcasm. This movie is full of big name A-list and B-list actors. Almost everyone in this movie had, or has a pretty decent acting career. Than there is the excellent score that sets every mood exactly the way it should be. The directing, and the director of photography should be applauded for making something that looks and sounds incredible. But I'm just delving into the technical aspects there and that isn't what this is meant to be about.

First of all I want to preface this by saying this movie is one of those that anyone who has 3 hours of their life to kill on a movie, they could do much worse than to watch Heat. The story is pretty simplistic. It is about a crew (lead by a stone cold Robert DeNiro) that takes down major scores, that's a group of criminals who are big deal thieves. This crew catches the eye of a big deal cop (Al Pacino) who works taking down guys like them. He and his team start to work on trying to take down DeNiro and his crew. Pacino is on the downslope of a marriage because he really is married to his job. DeNiro is working on his "one last job" to be able to finally leave with a woman he's just met. His crew is full of their own issues that add to the overall story, not take away from it unlike most movies like this that try and create more character out of their side stories. Now one of the reasons Michael Mann got so much attention to this movie was because he did something no one else ever had. He got DeNiro and Pacino sharing the screen for the first time ever and having a conversation between one another. This scene sums of the themes of the film perfectly. It is some of the most powerful dialogue in cinema that simply states DeNiro is his crimes, and Pacino is his hunt to catch criminals.

This movie is FULL of action and huge tension filled scenes. It is constantly either building towards a big scene, or is in the middle of one. Anyone who likes well made, character filled action movies will enjoy this movie. I guarantee it.

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